USPTO Orders Reexam of Trend Micro's AntiVirus Patent Based on Prior Art

 
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Old 09-23-2010
USPTO Orders Reexam of Trend Micro's AntiVirus Patent Based on Prior Art

Once again, your prior art searching on Groklaw proved useful.
The USPTO on September 16 issued an order granting Fortinet's petition to reexamine the validity of the Trend Micro patent on antivirus functionality, the 5,623,600 patent, on the grounds that a "substantial new question of patentability" exists based on prior art now being considered. Fortinet publicly acknowledges the help of the open source community, specifically mentioning the prior art searching you guys did here on Groklaw in June. The ultimate outcome is yet to be determined, of course, and that's in the hands of the lawyers now, but you guys did your part. It's a great partnership, techies and lawyers, and I thank you for working hard on this, and I hope it leads to a just resolution.

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Bio::Biblio::Patent(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Bio::Biblio::Patent(3pm)

NAME
Bio::Biblio::Patent - Representation of a patent SYNOPSIS
$obj = Bio::Biblio::Patent->new(-doc_number => '1-2-3-4-5'); #--- OR --- $obj = Bio::Biblio::Patent->new(); $obj->doc_number ('1-2-3-4-5'); DESCRIPTION
A storage object for a patent. See its place in the class hierarchy in http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/openbqs/images/bibobjects_perl.gif Attributes The following attributes are specific to this class (however, you can also set and get all attributes defined in the parent classes): doc_number doc_office doc_type applicants type: array ref of Bio::Biblio::Providers SEE ALSO
o OpenBQS home page: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/openbqs/ o Comments to the Perl client: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/openbqs/Client_perl.html FEEDBACK
Mailing Lists User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to the Bioperl mailing list. Your participation is much appreciated. bioperl-l@bioperl.org - General discussion http://bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists - About the mailing lists Support Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list: bioperl-l@bioperl.org rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible. Reporting Bugs Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web: https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/ AUTHORS
Heikki Lehvaslaiho (heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org), Martin Senger (senger@ebi.ac.uk) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002 European Bioinformatics Institute. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. DISCLAIMER
This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-02 Bio::Biblio::Patent(3pm)